Improvement in skates



J. DRUCKLIEB.

SKATES. v No.178,051. Patented May 30,1876.

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NAFETERS, PHOTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D, c.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JULIUS DRUOKLIEB, OF JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 78,051, dated May 30,1876; application filed February 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS DRUOKLIEB, of Jersey City Heights, in thecounty of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new andImproved Skate, of which the following is a specification:

"rigidly applied to the heel and sole of the shoe.

The invention consists of improved heel and sole fastening devices.

In the drawing, A represents a skate, the heel'plate of which isprovided at the under side with guide lugs 01., in which a slottedplate, B, slides, parallel to the runner in the direction of thelongitudinal axis of the skate.

A set-screw, 0, turns in a screw-nut, b, cast at the rear part of theslotted plate B, and carries the same backward when turned, so that itsend bears against the runner. The plate B may be moved forward when thescrew is turned back. The plate B is cast at the front end with abearing, 01, for the pivot-pin of a swinging lever, D, that binds, byits broad spurred or pointed edge D, against the front part of theboot-heel, so as to bite into the same, and secure it tightly to therear lugs D of the heelplate. The set screw 0 allows the adjustment ofthe skate to any size the skate to the boot-heel, releasing the samewhen the lever is lowered and the griping of its sharp edge D isdiscontinued. The front part of the boot or shoe is connected to theskate by an adjustable toe-holder, E; or it may be connected by thesole-binding side clamps F, of which one is set by a clampscrew, whilethe other is slidden sidewise by a swinging lever, F, havingan eccentricat its fulcrum, which works in a recess of the sliding clamp-plate. Thelever F is retained in place by means of a downwardly-bent side lug, f,at the outer end, which engages with the heel-lever D when the latter isseated on. the rest or stop-lug 0f the runner. The front part of theskate is thus, equally with the heel, reliably secured to the foot.

What I claim is 1. The slotted plate B, sliding in guide-lugs at, havinga nut, b, with screw, 0, and provided With a bearing, d, in combinationwith swinging lever D, having the pointed edge D, heelplate having rearlugs D, and runner having the stop-lug e, as and for the purposedescribed.

2. The combination of side clamps F, swinging lever F, having eccentricstud f and a downwardly-bent lug, f, and the heel-lever D, all arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose specified.

JULIUS DRUCKLIEB.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, T. B. MosHEE.

